 Poster: A snowHead
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Yup looks like sliding has commenced although visibility is a bit iffy with continued snow showers coming in (not that that's a bad thing though  ).
Hope everyone up there today has a great time.
BTW, just in case the West feels left out there are new Winterhighland webcams at Glencoe too, looks like some good accumulations of snow:
http://www.winterhighland.info/cams/glencoe/
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I have a meeting in Dundee on the Monday before Xmas, is Glenshee likely be open on the weekend before. Would be a shame to drive all the way up there and not give Scotland another go.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ptarmigan Tow was open in the morning with the Ciste Tow coming on at lunchtime. All Top Basin runs open and complete with fantastic snow/cover on the Ciste Fairway, really well drifted in with the fence lines loaded for opening day.
With a couple of stretches of combat skiing I notched up the first full length decent of the M1 RaceTrack, if we get some more snow over the next couple of days to a couple of hundred feet lower than last weeks some middle runs/uplift could go. Upper Cas could just about go at the moment, indeed fence depth drifts in places on it.
^Ptarmigan Tow doing it's thing for the first day of the 2009/10 Season.
More Photos: http://www.winterhighland.info/pix/pixalbum.php?pix_id=556
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Looking good:
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Winterhighland, how many people were there Alan? looks like a reasonable turnout
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might want to edit the glencoe link at the top of the page from .com to .co.uk then people will be able to get to the new site.
www.glencoemountain.co.uk
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Glenogle, thanks! Done.
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Snow down to Loch Morlich this morning and the White lady webcams are showing more snow 
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Anyone know if the Cairngorm mountain are planning to open this week?
Would take a day or two of and work the weekend if they are like.
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I'd keep an eye on winterhighland Dave, their latest info here says:
http://www.winterhighland.info/general/
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CairnGorm Mountain is not intending to be open for snowsports this coming week as the annual maintenance programme is wrapped up. The Funicular will be open this week though and snowsports maybe available if cover were to improve on the lower third of the middle slopes
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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dave_wick, the Cairngorm website is currently stating:
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| For early December CairnGorm Mountain is committed to running lifts and tows for weekend skiing (Saturday and Sundays) and we will review midweek skiing on a daily basis. There is sufficient snow at present to operate both the Ciste and Ptarmigan lifts but there is insufficient snow for a run from the top to the middle. The level of midweek demand from customers is being monitored. At present levels of interest a midweek skiing operation is not commercially viable. We will review interest levels and conditions daily as we move forward through December. |
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Looking at the Winterhighland Glencoe webcams it looks like it's snowing heavily in the West right now and the BBC are forecasting "up to a foot" of snow overnight on the Grampians so hopefully Cairngorm will get it too - fingers crossed!
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Cairngorm is open for snowsports tomorrow, from the Cairngorm Mountain website:
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Information for Thursday 3rd December:
Weather permitting we intend to offer some snowsports with skiing and boarding from the top to the middle and use of the M1 poma back to the top but NO middle station stops. The Ciste Bowl will also be open. Early season conditions apply with some good snow in places but also quite a lot of rocks visible, and therefore will be for intermediate to experts only and no beginners.
Weather forecast for Thursday: Some light rain or snow showers possibly, and generally cloudy all day with little or no sun. |
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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as I posted on winterhighland: Up in the Ptarmigan just now. Vertically falling snow but visibility as flat as an A4 sheet of paper. First 3/4 of Traverse/105 very nice snow. Gunbarrel open now but narrow. Maybe about 30 in the resto. M1 and Ciste tows running as planned.
Hope I've not mixed my piste names up.
Andy
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Poster: A snowHead
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| visibility as flat as an A4 sheet of paper. |
that qualifies as bluebird up here!
hoping to get out at the weekend 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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OMG, it looks awesome up there today - more fresh overnight and now really sunny!
How jealous am I sitting here at work looking at the webcams!
2 weeks and counting....
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brian
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roga, hope they're making the most of it, forecasts are somewhat rollercoaster after today. Hope the down bits aren't a total washout ...
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My one word snow report follows:
Bluebird.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Oh my, the webcams at Cairngorm have just made me do a little wee.
Why oh why did I choose to live on the South Coast of England? WHY LORD?
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Wow!
Info for Friday 4th December:
We are open for snowsports today, weather conditions are fabulous! Dry, bright and sunny with a temperature of minus 2C and virtually no wind. It's a suncream and shades day!
We have the funicular railway, M1 poma and Coire na Ciste t'bar open.
Snow conditions on the Ciste side are superb. The White Lady run is open, it's unpisted and very difficult, for EXPERT skiers / snowboarders only.
It is possible to ski/board back to the base station via the home road although it's a bit sketchy in places. 3cm of fresh snow on the other available runs.
ONLY INTERMEDIATES AND EXPERTS - NO BEGINNERS
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| It's a suncream and shades day! |
LOL, some of those taking sickies today to ski might have a bit of explaining to do Monday when they turn up to work looking like pandas!
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*sigh*
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I need to find some way of bringing on an ice age, so that we get some natural ski areas in the South.
Can you all go and turn all the lights on in your house and boil kettles repeatedly please.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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That looks awesome. The forecast is all over the place at the moment, hope it comes good.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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got back mid afternoon after a great few hours at Cairngorm , even the pictures dont really tell how good it was , shared a T-Bar on the Ciste Tow with a guy from Oxford up visting friends , first time skiing in Scotland ........... how lucky can you get , Ive only skied in conditions like that about 5 timres in the last 6 years.
Here's a few more photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44327814@N08/4158479676/in/set-72157622810099085/
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I've been at work all day, watching the web cams. Not good viewing, when you know the weather forecast for tomorrow is no where near as good.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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A small selection of photos up on Winterhighland from the 'Gorm today. Superb day, but spent most of the afternoon under the M1 Timing Hut !
^Looking up towards the Ptarmigan Restaurant and M1 Poma from the M1/Traverse split on Friday.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Looks great, and a bonus to have this before Christmas.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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easiski, yes a definite bonus but not unusual for the Gorm to open, at least at the top, before Xmas. The snow looks particularly good though in the photos from Friday - hope you're surprising the locals in L2A by showing them the photos from Scotland 
Today apparently there was a bit of a thaw on the lower slopes but snow falling all day from around 800 metres up.
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Bluebird and wind free day at Cairngorm today... best snow was in the top bowl where all runs were full width... best run was the fairway which was getting the most traffic so there was a little loose on top of the hard pack... Mid mountain was very firm... traverse was slick but the 105 took an edge (just) didn't fancy the M1 with such firm snow but it was full width to the cut off..... gun barrel is getting narrow and slick.....
photo...
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3057026&l=9c5c467cb5&id=589243072
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Couple of photos from Friday, perfect weather day, more of the same Saturday, still settled for Sunday but maybe some cloud rolling around:
^Skier on the Ciste Fairway, full width between the fences, firm but grippy snow. Ptarmigan Bowl more extensively pisted giving layer of loose sugary snow.
^Skier heads for Coire Cas on the Traverse.
More: http://www.winterhighland.info/pix/pixalbum.php?pix_id=559,1,1
Piste basher crew have completely rebuild the Zig Zags and link to the M1 Poma, huge amount of snow moved around giving a good quality link to the Poma. With this traffic the Traverse and 105 really loosened up later in the day, with the Zig Zags available this could be the best run for Saturday (On Friday the Zig Zags were closed while the Piste Bashers were working and the infamous Coire Cas Gunbarrel was doing it's best luge track impression!
Of the pisted and more heavily trafficed areas the snow is firm up top, becoming increasingly hard packed and slick towards the middle. M1 is hard, will take a sharp edge, but no fun if your on blunt rock hoppers (which there's no real need for if you stick to the main open trails). White Lady is a disaster zone, rough and frozen solid, great base but leave it till we get more snow! Talking of which there is a base in most of the places it's needed, thus it would not take much new snow to really crank up operations. The Ciste Gully is complete to the boardwalks, the M2 is complete to Overyonder, so just need snow to stick down there and fill in the West Wall Poma track and we could have the whole mountain above mid-station open.
Snow showers are forecast to follow the settled spell and despite apparent air temperatures above freezing on the mountain the ground and snow is frozen, and will stay so under the dry air of inversion conditions. Very promising base for the first third of December, fingers crossed.
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looks stunning up there at the moment, gutted i cant get up there, due to be in dumfries for new year so might just accidently miss the turn off for the A75 and continue up to the highlands!!!
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Lets hope for similar conditions tomorrow, Sunday - I'll be over for a ski and if conditions are good I'll be heading over the back.
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Still pondering over a trip up on Monday as I've got the day off.
Looks very tempting but sad to see that 'flurries' forecasted moved from monday to tuesday.
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